Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debs came from his cell with a gospel. In Chicago, 100,000 cheered him as he roared out his speech on "Liberty." Then, strangely enough, he stumped for Candidate Bryan in 1896. A year later the Socialist party was born, and in five presidential elections from 1900 to 1920 (except in 1916) Mr. Debs was a candidate, polling almost a million votes in each of his last two campaigns...
During the World War he attacked war in general and the draft in particular; was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918. Addressing the jury, he told his creed...
...England is suffering from an over does of Brooklyn jargon she is only being repaid in kind. For years the stages of this country have been peopled with men and women whose homes are represented as being any place in these United States, but whose speech is redolent of Buckingham Palace. Until the recent advent of the new naturalism of the theatre (low voice, mumbled words, incoherent murmurs), farm girls were quite likely to burst forth in ducal accents. Any person recognizing an r as something more than an opportunity for a drawl was looked upon as distinctly provincial. Thanks...
...scene was a big auditorium in Washington, D. C. Some 5,000 school children were massed before the platform, rustling the flags they had brought to wave at the conclusion of President Coolidge's speech. The event was the international finals of an oratorical contest worked up by leading U. S. newspapers to promote, not the art of oratory, but the interest of young people in the science of government. As President Coolidge had explained after being introduced by Mr. Hammond: "It will be a help to the youth of different nations to learn of the benefits which each...
...Adult-infantilism is our chief deficiency as a people." The symptoms are clubbiness, boasted possessions and achievement, love of making rules (laws) and breaking them, suggestibility (advertising) conformity (fashions), fads, seriousness at play (bald golfers "like children playing Papa and Mama"), love of praise, extremes in speech ("marvelous", "wonderful"), calling wives "the girls' and husbands "the boys", short- lived curiosity, emotional unbalance and shallowness, limitation of social intercourse to personalities and amusements. The causes are: coddling parents ("They were allowed to meet the hazards of life") prosperity through science; mass education, to the neglect of culture. A result...